Monday Mix: Miss Sofie (Sofia Kourtesis) Malecon Mix

If the holidays’ ups and downs shake you up, music can chill you out and bring you back down to Earth. (And even if the holidays are going well, you may find you still need some palette cleansers to try to rinse out the endlessly-looping holiday tunes that have assaulted us in past weeks.) So, we continue our Music into 2014 series with a really special mix from Sofia Kourtesis.

Sofia Kourtesis, DJing as Miss Sofie, is one of the music world’s many unsung multi-talented professionals, having made impressive strides as a booking agent, an independent producer and singer, and DJ and selector. Her Malecón Mix’s title evokes a seaside esplanade, like the one in Old Havana. And there’s something about her selections that feels centering, just like walking in the sun with cool seaside breezes and deep blue vistas. (Okay, it’s not Cuban, per se – think the feeling of doing that.)

With sounds from Hannes Rasmus to Cosmin TRG, Sofia hand-picks some of the finest production work of the last couple of years – sharply-focused, beautifully-made gems, all.